[Warning] Scammers have created fake crypto projects using the X.com name.

[ScamViruS]

What happened: Scammers have created fake crypto projects using the X.com name.
Website :

Code:

http://xtoken.vip/

Twitter X coin : https://twitter.com/X_coineth
Twitter X Token : https://twitter.com/XTokenBNB

Currently, the biggest hot news on the internet is Elon Musk's X project. And scammers will not try to scam using this hot news, it is not expected of them. So they have not disappointed me, they have already come up with various fake projects to scam crypto users in the internet world. They are using Twitter to make this scam a success. Crypto users should control their greed so as not to lose their funds by investing in such scams.

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[CODE200]

High time that people are made aware of these scams, Twitter changing their design is definitely a  feast for scammers and I don't know what to expect from this wave of X related scams but I do hope that we see less people falling for these incoming scams, I'm not placing my hopes that no one will fall for this because there's definitely someone out there stupid enough to fall for them.

[arabspaceship123]

Scammers using X.com because it's easy for trapping investors who didn't invest in cryptocurrency 14 years ago. They'll take famous stories like Twitter becoming X to make presale tokens. Investors shouldn't trust everything they're reading. Investors want wealth so they'll trust scammers because FOMO.

[BD Crypto]

Just astonished to see these huge number of followers from a fake project. This makes more difficult to find out real one and many of new comers trust these because they looks like real. Anyway fake Followers can be increased or bought easily even I saw some fake twitter promoting airdrops with blue verified badge as it's easy to buy and can attract newbies to be scammed.

This one should be a warning to newbies and never fall in these types of trap. If you see something suspicious from an official account you must verify it if there something compromised or not. Anyway good catch OP

[ScamViruS]

Scammers using X.com because it's easy for trapping investors who didn't invest in cryptocurrency 14 years ago. They'll take famous stories like Twitter becoming X to make presale tokens. Investors shouldn't trust everything they're reading. Investors want wealth so they'll trust scammers because FOMO.

Since this is a hot trend in the market at the moment, it was predicted that scammers would try to exploit this trend. If you keep an eye on various social media including Twitter, you will see these scams coming up almost constantly in the coming days. Because there are some crypto investors who invest in such scams hoping for quick profits, but end up losing their funds and exiting the market. So crypto investors need to be more careful and protect themselves from such scams.

[Pmalek]

It was expected that scammers would try to take advantage of the fact that Twitter is rebranding into X. It worked well in the past with all those fake Elon Musk crypto giveaways. I am sure these fake X token scams will be successful also. Greed is greater than logic, and unknowledgeable plebs will get hooked to this like crazy thinking Elon is throwing away money.

[TimeTeller]

It was expected that scammers would try to take advantage of the fact that Twitter is rebranding into X. It worked well in the past with all those fake Elon Musk crypto giveaways. I am sure these fake X token scams will be successful also. Greed is greater than logic, and unknowledgeable plebs will get hooked to this like crazy thinking Elon is throwing away money.

They have thousands of followers already, so even if they got a quarter of those followers to invest,
these people will get a good amount of money. Scammers will have a feast because of this twitter rebranding.
Remember, there are also too many gullible people out there trying to make a quick profit from this market.
Expect that not only this project will take advantage of this situation, but there will be more fake X-related coins or tokens that will be launched.
This http://xtoken.vip/ site is the the fake one and they are using the popularity of X now, and the legit one is this - x.com

edit:
Just to share the some details of this site =
https://www.whois.com/whois/x.com


It says from the news that X.com is owned by X Corp and that is the legal name of twitter when Elon acquired it.
Seems that X.com is the legit domain owned by Musk. And they just revive it when they formally changed the name of twitter to X. Let's see how this will develop.

Twitter is now X. Here's what that means.

[hugeblack]

I thought the scammers got access to X.com but it seems to be a scam as it often happens but they are quick to choose the name.

It was expected that scammers would try to take advantage of the fact that Twitter is rebranding into X. It worked well in the past with all those fake Elon Musk crypto giveaways. I am sure these fake X token scams will be successful also. Greed is greater than logic, and unknowledgeable plebs will get hooked to this like crazy thinking Elon is throwing away money.

I still can't believe the scammers who took advantage of the name of Squid Game Crypto Scam^[1] and got millions from this useless scam.
They pumped the price of scam and suddenly everyone seemed happy that they made profits, but suddenly when they want to sell they can't.

Therefore, I do not advise anyone to invest in an unknown currency or in a trend because it is often a scam.

[1] How a Squid Game Crypto Scam Got Away With Millions

[bittraffic]

It is logical to use that platform for its promotion. I guess the scammers did make money, the naive investors are just going to send some amount thinking they are the first to invest.
The account wasn't blocked still, if it ain't blocked people will think this is really real so where is the censoring team when it's very much needed?

Even if it's an obvious scam, if the investors see the token is listed on the exchange and there is volume, a lot of investors are actually going to join in. We've seen this happen in the past.

[acroman08]

It was expected that scammers would try to take advantage of the fact that Twitter is rebranding into X. It worked well in the past with all those fake Elon Musk crypto giveaways. I am sure these fake X token scams will be successful also. Greed is greater than logic, and unknowledgeable plebs will get hooked to this like crazy thinking Elon is throwing away money.

They have thousands of followers already, so even if they got a quarter of those followers to invest,
these people will get a good amount of money. Scammers will have a feast because of this twitter rebranding.
Remember, there are also too many gullible people out there trying to make a quick profit from this market.
Expect that not only this project will take advantage of this situation, but there will be more fake X-related coins or tokens that will be launched.

the account is old and the followers are most likely bought from bot account farmers(very common for scammers to do to make their account look somewhat credible) so I wouldn't be too worried about their followers investing, what I worry about is people falling for the scam because they have 66k fake followers

just want to add that here are some more accounts that posted the same project.
https://twitter.com/XTokenBEP
https://twitter.com/X_TokenBSC

[CryptSafe]

Thanks to you for this information. I saw this not long ago but I had that feelings of not going any further and immediately I got distracted while still contemplating on it.
Come to talk of  this xcoin if a thing, I remembered years ago many scam projects with the name xcoin scammed many people of their hard earned resources through contract call which I was also a victim of as the thought of lossing out as a new beginner was just hanging on my mind.  I took part in it and after a while their twitter account and telegram chat group got deleted. There I knew I had made a big mistake getting myself involved in shitcoin. They rugpulled and many lost funds.

[albon]

Twitter X coin : https://twitter.com/X_coineth

If we check this Twitter account that promotes the fake X token, we will find that in [This Tweet], they put a link to buy their scam token on Uniswap. After checking the token contract address on De.fi, it turned out to be a Honeypot token with a high risk of a Rugpull.

Check out the following results:


The proof that I mentioned above is simple proof indicating that the X tokens that are being promoted now are scam Rugpull tokens. There are accounts that also promote the pre-sale of the X token. The token creator places his wallet address for the Twitter victims to send him their investment funds to buy this scam token, and there are accounts that promote X phishing domains, so beginners should be careful.

[blue Snow]

Even if it's an obvious scam, if the investors see the token is listed on the exchange and there is volume, a lot of investors are actually going to join in. We've seen this happen in the past.

Elon Musk's name is one of the factors to investors interested to invest his money in an unknown project. The hype investor will immediately move and find X token/coin to match in what Elon mentioned. I really sure they was bought and wait for the moment. maybe right now, they are looking for another token that contains an letter of X. I see that X token/coin on coinmarketcap rise about 100% after Elon mentioned

[joniboini]

what I worry about is people falling for the scam because they have 66k fake followers

I wonder why Twitter is so slow at handling this kind of thing. I've seen dozens of accounts with similar operations doing fake giveaways or airdrop trending on their page, but those accounts are still there without no action taken against them. It doesn't help that their CEO is changing their name to something obscure and allowing some random ass projects to piggyback their name. We can only rely on people having good awareness after so many scams are exposed on Twitter.

[CryptSafe]

what I worry about is people falling for the scam because they have 66k fake followers

I wonder why Twitter is so slow at handling this kind of thing. I've seen dozens of accounts with similar operations doing fake giveaways or airdrop trending on their page, but those accounts are still there without no action taken against them. It doesn't help that their CEO is changing their name to something obscure and allowing some random ass projects to piggyback their name. We can only rely on people having good awareness after so many scams are exposed on Twitter.

I too was wondering why the social media giant could do nothing about it. Many scam projects were encountered through twitter and they do away with their act so easily without any proper investigation from the media giant.
I think they need to have a look into their policies for business accounts to undergoing some sort of verification before they are allowed to create an account and do advertisement for their products. This can help to reduce the effect of scam projects through twitter media.

[robelneo]

It's easy to read the scammers' actions, where there is a new trend that's their lead to create a new scheme its always been what's trending and they create shill marketing and FOMO, if you're a new investor you'll be overwhelmed by the scheme because it's too hard to resist the FOMO.
But if you've seen these schemes so many times you'll just ignore these, but we should not stop to warn people because the scammers will never stop they keep improving, and we are good at catching them, they never stop but we keep it up.

[ScamViruS]

Twitter X coin : https://twitter.com/X_coineth

If we check this Twitter account that promotes the fake X token, we will find that in [This Tweet], they put a link to buy their scam token on Uniswap. After checking the token contract address on De.fi, it turned out to be a Honeypot token with a high risk of a Rugpull.

There is no doubt that these tokens are created with the intention of scamming crypto investors. By listing these fake tokens on Uniswap, attracting investors, they will sell all the tokens they hold and take money from the market. It is true that when a new trend is created in the crypto market, crypto investors invest in those projects without thinking, they don't think for a time that these projects can be Rugpull. So X token is a perfect example of how fake tokens enter the market.

[ajiz138]

Nice catch for the OP!

Although we can still identify that this is scammers while others that this is real, it looks like there are still many followers, many tweets, and many comments meaning that they believe that this is legit.

On twitter there are still many scammers, especially with Twitter wanting to rebrand to a new domain, of course scammers take advantage of this gap to steal a lot of money.

It seems that if many people report it, Twitter will not respond faster.

[Sim_card]

Just astonished to see these huge number of followers from a fake project. This makes more difficult to find out real one and many of new comers trust these because they looks like real. Anyway fake Followers can be increased or bought easily even I saw some fake twitter promoting airdrops with blue verified badge as it's easy to buy and can attract newbies to be scammed.

This one should be a warning to newbies and never fall in these types of trap. If you see something suspicious from an official account you must verify it if there something compromised or not. Anyway good catch OP

Those followers are fake just like the project is fake. I only feel pity for those greedy fellows who think that they are smart and are looking for coins with high profit within some days. Those are the ones that will fall for this scam due to their greedy nature. Newbies should know the difference between bitcoin and other cryptocurrency so that they can invest on bitcoin and not on scam projects. I don't think someone like me will fall for such scammers because I believe only in bitcoin and if it is not bitcoin,I wouldn't invest.

[acroman08]

I wonder why Twitter is so slow at handling this kind of thing. I've seen dozens of accounts with similar operations doing fake giveaways or airdrop trending on their page, but those accounts are still there without no action taken against them.

it's either there are not enough reports being made against the scam account to warrant an action or they probably just don't care. because if they cared, even if there is only one report against the scam account but as long as the report is accurate, they would have banned the account.

also, Facebook is the same, I can't count the number of accounts that I have reported on Facebook because the account is obviously trying to scam people but no action is being made.